Rate My Professor Francois Meyer

Francois Meyer is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. He holds a BSc and BSc Honours from Stellenbosch University, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam, and a PhD from the University of Cape Town, completed in 2025 under the supervision of Jan Buys. His doctoral research focused on optimising subword segmentation for low-resource, morphologically complex languages.

Meyer’s academic interests centre on natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning, with a particular emphasis on low-resource NLP, data-efficient modelling, and linguistically informed interpretability. He is a member of the UCT NLP research group and has contributed to projects involving South African languages. In addition to his research, Meyer teaches undergraduate and honours courses in machine learning, deep learning, Bayesian networks, and programming. His professional email address is fmeyer@cs.uct.ac.za.